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About the Trump Victory

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Donald Trump will be our president for the next four years. We are living through unprecedented times. It’s hard not to see this as a huge protest vote—with several sometimes competing things being protested. The effects of globalization. Job insecurity. Alienation from others and anxiety about the future. Anxiety about rapid and continuous cultural change. Anger over elite privilege. The list goes on. I doubt if Donald Trump is going to change anything in a direction that fixes those problems. The fact that Elon Musk loves him, and Jeff Bezos is willing to play ball with him by shutting down the Washington Post editorial board says that he’s ultimately very friendly to large corporations. The stock market is going up.

Incarnation and the Environment, with Author Jordan Daniel Wood

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Jordan Daniel Wood honored us with two visits to the Maurin Academy’s monthly Communio reading group recently. This is just a short segment of a fascinating conversation with Dr. Wood, who is the author of The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus the Confessor. To get updated on upcoming Communio, other reading … Read more

The Spiritual Crises of Modernity: From Nominalism to Nihilism

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The Spiritual Crises of Modernity: From Nominalism to Nihilism A Maurin Academy course with Deacon Christopher May 7 pm CDT live on Zoom on Tuesdays October 08, 15, 22, 29 Reportedly, William Temple, who became the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1942, once asked his father, who was then the Archbishop: “Father, why don’t philosophers rule … Read more

The Uses of Idolatry: A Review

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The Uses of Idolatry, by William T. Cavanaugh, deals with the economic and political maladaptations of our day due to idolatry. The transfer of religious zeal and reverence towards politics and material things is, of course, ground that has been covered differently in books as diverse as Eugene McCarraher’s The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, and my Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right. This book begins with the contributions of Max Weber and Charles Taylor, and Cavanaugh details how his argument differs from theirs.